Justin P. Raphael is a litigation partner in the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson. His practice is focused on antitrust litigation, including antitrust claims related to intellectual property, as well as complex civil litigation.
Key Representations:
- American Express in obtaining a Supreme Court victory in a lawsuit brought by 17 states and the U.S. Department of Justice alleging that the credit card company’s merchant contracts are anti-competitive.
- Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in defense of claims by the Federal Trade Commission and a nationwide class action asserting antitrust challenges to patent settlements. FTC v. Actavis; In re Androgel Antitrust Litig. (nationwide MDL)
- Activision in defense of right of publicity claims brought by former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega in which he claims that his depiction as a minor character in Call of Duty: Black Ops II violates his right of publicity and California’s unfair competition statute.
- LinkedIn before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court challenging government restrictions on disclosure of government requests for member data.
Prior to joining Munger Tolles, Mr. Raphael was a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard J. Holwell of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Mr. Raphael graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was the commencement speaker, and assisted the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Mr. Raphael received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Education:
- Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 2009)
- University of Pennsylvania (B.A., summa cum laude, American History, 2006) Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions :
- California
- New York
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